Be Well
Healthy employees are more likely to be happy employees, and if nothing else, healthy employees are more likely to actually show up for work. Many folks try to stay healthy in the short-term — look at all the people you see wearing masks on public transit — but a long-term approach to health can not […]
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Dr William Thomas - Posted in Health and Balance
- Aug, 29, 2016
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Aug, 29, 2016
Hanging Up
In Bangkok, you find signs in the Skytrain stations urging you to look up rather than down at your phone. Go down into the Hong Kong MTR and you hear announcements asking you to be careful on the escalators and “please do not be looking only at your phone.” Walk down the streets of Seoul […]
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- Posted in Management
- Aug, 24, 2016
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Poor Leadership is Offensive
We made the point last month that good leadership is a choice. It follows, then, that poor leadership can be a choice, too. I don’t think of bad leadership as “unfortunate” or “just a fact of life.” I think it’s offensive. Is that too strong of a word?? Why does it bother me that much? […]
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- Posted in Leading
- Aug, 12, 2016
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Going Beyond the Basics
A few years ago I had a chance to visit the offices and studios of National Public Radio in Washington DC. In addition to catching a glimpse of some of the announcers whose voices I knew but whose faces I had never seen, I saw something I didn’t expect: the NPR laboratory. Now, this is […]
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- Posted in Creativity & Innovation
- Aug, 10, 2016
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Show Some Respect
A former colleague who has been at a large international organization got some bad news earlier this summer. For 2 years he worked with this group on a contract basis in a part-time status, which is their normal “probationary” style of bringing on new employees. Throughout this fiscal year he was told he would be […]
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- Posted in Ethics
- Aug, 03, 2016
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